anyone from the windy city will say there are two chicagos. the one with the thriving downtown historic ballparks and world renowned architecture. and the other that tourists rarely see. >> we received a tip and it's a possible weapons. anytime you hit the tier, it lets them know our information is constant. so no matter what they try to do we have the ups on it. >> planting eyes and ears inside the jail system and out on the streets can authorities battle gang violence. >> i got 20 good informant where they call me every other day.

i'm around the corner. these guise here believe me, they can inform you of everything. flagging me down, right? took a friend to this guy's residence. what's 3.5? eight ball cocaine? >> you have to make a living. this is their job. >> but as police take down one stash house after another -- >> movement on the second floor. move monment on the second floo >> even best informants can't be trusted. >> it's odd no one's in there. it's odd nothing's in there. >> somehow they got tipped off, i don't know. >> ever work with the police before or no?

>> it's 4:00 p.m. and the beginning of a long night for members of the criminal intelligence unit at chicago's cook county jail. investigators drake carpenter and adrien sandoval are signing up a new street aftinformant, wl call niko. after getting out of jail on bond, niko applied to work with investigators soi, source of income, in exchange for money. >> this will be his soi pat. we'll get all of his vital information. name won't exist on anything. he's officially give ain't number. the number will go with him from here on out. we'll give him an opportunity to pick a name. that name will be used when he gets paid. >> niko's off to a promising start already. he's provided them the address

of an alleged drug ring on the city's northwest side. police have made 29 arrests at the house in the past. >> there's even a rape charge that came out of the property also. >> as sandoval looks up aprior arrests he comes across a major player. this guy's a high rank iing lan lover. he stays there? >> in and out. >> holy cow. he's on latin lover. >> but that isn't the only offender tied to the residence. >> all of these individuals arrested at this address one point or another. we have the rap sheets for all of them. >> niko says he's bought cocaine at house before he can't confirm who the ring leader is. >> they make him wait by the front. he has to use a connection and the connection goes through the gate. only issue is that we don't know who the target is.

so hopefully we can set up enough surveillance so we can see who is coming out to serve the guy at the door or what apartment he's going into. >> the plan to send an undercover officer to buy drugs with niko. that way they hope to identify the deal somewhere build a case for a search warrant. >> showing up with a guy wouldn't be nothing, right? you don't see what apartment he goes to? you're going to walk with him? >> he might tell me, you know what i mean? >> yeah. >> i can still see everything. >> even you know what? anybody -- i could walk down the street. >> yeah, normally. >> i fit right in. i throw on a hat, walk down the street like i'm going home from work. >> that's it. >> try to get a direct eyeball as he's approaching the house. this is the actual property but it doesn't look like this anymore. it's got a six-foot wooden fence all the way around the property. so it's going to make it harder.

now you have a steel gate in the front like a security gate and a security gate in the back. >> a little mini cam? >> who? >> a mini cam. >> on you? >> i'll put it on. >> you watch too much tv. >> before they go any further they need to find out gang affiliations and ranks of each of the men connected to the house. >> we have to check charts to identify potential risk on these guy. always high risk, but so we know what we're getting into. this guy is on the chart. look familiar to you at all? >> i'll look at him. >> latin folks, maniacs or whatever, that's what this guy said, lovers or maniacs. run him on porthole see if anybody comes up. >> the background checks confirm that at least one of the known

offenders belongs to the violent latin lover street gang. >> that's why i remember his name so much. his name came up a lot. they don't have a lot of guys. for him to be on the chart, he's got a rank for them. >> together with the cook county sheriff's police, sandoval and carpenter coordinate the first of two undercover buys at the target house. each buy must happen under police surveillance and officers have to complete at least two narcotic sales at location in order to get a search warrant. >> out of the car. >> there they go right there. >> sandoval and carpenter watch an undercover cop arrive to score cocaine from the dealer but they aren't at only ones doing surveillance. at least two other unmarked sheriff's police cars in the vicinity with officers watching. >> taking a long time.

>> thought it would be fast, right? >> i don't like it. >> after several minutes the first buy is over. >> here he comes. >> when you pull out, go that way. go. >> go that way? if go that way. >> investigators debrief at a nearby parking lot. they've now eyeballed the dealer, a known target in their records, and made a successful purchase. the undercover officer goes back to make the second buy a while later. >> we are good to go. write the search warrant up, start making plans to execute it. >> both types tonight, police also identified an armed lookout man and pit bull outside the residence which means there's probably a large stash of drugs and money inside. >> this is a big sting. >> this -- it's looking decent right now. >> don't count your chickens. >> the next step for sheriff's

police to do more surveillance before they launch a raid and the ciu's informant wants to set up another narcotic sting for them soon. >> he wants to help you. he wants to do it. once you find a guy like that, take advantage, mold him. once you got a guy that can follow direction, stay in his natural element that's the most important thing. >> coming up on "the squeeze." >> you'll never fine him. >> one of the ciu's longtime informants leave them to a stash spot, and later -- >> it's not personal, this is business, understand? >> authorities gun for the target that niko provided them. >> police. search warrant. open the door! [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso.

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county zblael chicago's cook county jail, them to 10,000 inmates. for many first-timers here, county is a right of passage. >> they get mere and instead over saying, man, i screwed up, it's like man i made it i'm a man i went to county jail. made it out, got beat up, i got to beat somebody up. it's a story they tell. >> some individuals come into the institution and gain more contacts, more insights, more avenue for their crimen ter prize. >> county's also where accused criminals are at their most vulnerable because their cases haven't gone to trial yet. if they have useful intel they might try to get a plea bargain with state's attorney's office and that's how the criminal intel against unit, or ciu, fines willing informants. >> all you have to do is utilize

one thing, that's patience. >> the ciu has cultivated hundreds of jailhouse informants and some continue working for money after they get out. today, investigator franco domma arranges to meet a longtime source nicknamed washington outside city limits. they first began working together when washington was locked up on a gun charge. >> he was known to sell narcotic, have guns on him, shoot at people. i like a challenge. knowing we've been having problems with him in the past, let me give this guy a chance. what can he tell me? he's provide a wealth of information during during inkars nation, no time did he lie to me. i have five great informants and he's probably the best. not only does he tell me about the drugs, violent potential

shootings, in the suburbs. i'm around the corner. see him in the black right there coming? got to be very, very eased up here. you see there's a lot of activity in this area. and i have to provide safety for him. yes, he's walking, looking around. looking around for safety. people are at him. he's looking to the left. to the right. once he makes eye contact, pull into an alley. see? he's flagging me down, right? you want to go to a location where we can debrief? sandoval, say there, sandoval. i'm coming. stay right there, i'm coming by the ballpark. 10-4. >> yeah, 10-4. >> how you doing, buddy? in okay. >> how was your week? >> it's okay. >> you work? >> for several years washington has provided reliable intel

about drug operations and potential gang hits. he receives a paycheck in return. and the bigger the bust, the bigger his reward. the purpose of today's meeting, to identify potential targets for search warrants. >> remember the house you gave -- that you gave dimas? >> plenty of weight. i've been there twice. >> you took a friend to the residence? >> 3. 5. >> what's 3.5. >> eight-ball. >> eight-ball of cocaine? i've been hard with this kid. when i mean hard, where you at? you better stay out of trouble understand me? yes, sir. treat me like a dad? if i wasn't around he'd probably be back in jail. >> if you lie, i'll catch you.

believe it or not half of the [ bleep ] i tell him -- >> where the bus turned? >> it's off division? >> yeah. it's right here on the corner. boarded up. >> guys here. >> investigator domma and his informant drive by an alleged drug thousand scope it out. domma will later debrief the sherif sheriff's police of setting up an operation there. >> a thousand feet from the school. >> that's even better. we need informants for survival. you got to trust your informant, keep him close. you tell guys your safety is my key. forget about a dope dealer. everybody sells drugs, correct? i need him out there for the violence. something happens in this town i put him out there, shorty, find out what happened, you think he's not going to tell me what happened? >> solving murders and better

yet preventing them takes top priority at the jail as well. ciu investigators have received a tip about mounting gang tensions at division 6. a medium security building which houses several dozen teenage inmates. their informant, who lives on the problem deck, warns them that a large-scale showdown is imminent. >> got to prove yourself when you come here. this is what you see who's going to run and who's going to stand and fight. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills.

>> division 9 at cook county jail, the emergency response team acts on intel from the ciu. and hits a maximum security deck to search for shanks and other home made weapons.

>> officers on the street. when they lock these rids up they refer to them as a menace to society. they eliminate the problem. when they come here, that's when our day begins. >> raid turns up evidence of shanks in the making. >> what they're doing is melting down plastic from the bottles and use this to mold it until they get hard enough and turn it into a shank. here's the officer seen him through the chuck hole unwrapping what they had, flush it in the toilet. >> it's not enough evidence to charge anyone but authorities believe they've averted a possible assault for now. >> we've got 1500 people here that are charged with murder. another 1500 that are charged with attempt murder. so you've got probably close to 3,000 people that would at any given moment take anybody's life. >> a whole library of incidents

that happened this year. >> if you've got a question about a guy's gang affiliation, this video will help you figure it out. >> getting ready to hit him on the phone there. >> right here? >> right. >> there's some right there. >> there he goes. >> there he goes. >> you have 40, 50 guys on one tier killing each other on the streets and expect them to get along? eventually tempers fly and that's when we end up having our stabbings or fights in here. >> ciu members and corrections staff face danger around every corner. 161 fights and 34 stabbings took place here in 2008. today, investigators sandoval, carpenter, and bucio will assist with a tier search. >> we have received intelligence that two rival gangs are having

some difficulties right now and they were going to attempt to sent the deck up start a large-scale fight at rec today. we called our emergency response team and together we're going to run in on the deck. >> we're going to go to the window like we're filming in there. of course kids are going to be kids, come to the window, doing all of this stuff. ert will hit the tier from the rear, come from behind them get a good shot of the rush in while we're out front. >> what's up, buddy?

>> let's go. let's go. >> get on the wall. get on the wall. >> get on the wall. do it now. >> you don't look at the wall, big fellow? maybe you looking for words. all you go got to do is act like you don't want to do for what you're being told, gentlemen. >> attention. at this time, look at nothing but the wall in front of you. if you turn around for any reason, you are not following instructions. comply with all orders. >> dear this [ bleep ] jail. >> calm down. >> includes visits. >> move back. >> here. >> what you got here.

common area, they get in trouble for this. >> shank wrapped up here in a bedsheet. >> got one more in the shower here. poker style. that poker's what you normally see when a guy goes out of here, he's not breathing. somebody hit him with the straight poke somewhere left it all the way in or pulled it out, could hit alone. pull it out, it's over. we've seen. both of us have seen it. >> coming here today, saved one of the kid's lives. >> intelligence right on point. hopefully we'll find more, stashed under the tables. these guys are ready to rock, i can tell you that. >> look at gym shoes. they're on tight. one of the gym shoes are laced up, they're ready to go. if not, normally wearing shower shoes or whatever. get a close-up of the gym shoes you know any minute this tier was going to go. >> unbeknownst to young inmates

eric bucio recruited an informant among them. that's how he learned about the trouble brew on the deck. >> guy come in here 17, 18 years old, first case. got to prove yourself when you come here. a lot of times this is where your reputation begins. you do something in here, this will leak out into streets, too. when you get out, we heard what you did when you're locked up, you're a beast. we heard you ran. we heard this. it follows you. >> the burden falls on investigators to keep conflicts down. mining intel from everyone they come across. bucio leans on a detainee not his informant the deck has won. you know everybody go on lockdown for the shank thing. you need to find out who had them. find out. try to get these out of here. this is -- this is -- why is anybody looking for keys? >> once investigators determine who made the shanks they'll

charge the inmate in court or use it as leverage to turn him into an informant to solve other cases. >> good job, buc. >> happy now? >> good job. you came through in the clutch. >> for now, investigator bucio can enjoy a moment tear victory. >> until today i was regretting bringing you upstairs. >> sorry. >> we lad transfer papers. >> anything for you, jump on a shoe box, you're upstairs. >> wow. >> man, that was good, for real. >> the culture of violence inside the jail mirrors the brutality of the streets especially on chicago's west and south sides. according to investigator domma, a nine-year veteran of gang intel, his approach to working streets is similar to what he does inside county.

>> it's like a jail. this is the division for me. this is division 9. i have to have the same concept. you have to have informants for survival. law enforcement, you have to bring, work 24 hours. i'm thinking long term. what can i do to make this better, safer environment? how can i control the violence? i'm going to take your pass real fast. an area known for narcotics and violence. this is called washington park. gang bangers have nowhere to congress great. shootings, homicides here at night. la gune you'll never find them. >> mayor daly proposed hosting the summer olympics at washington park among other venues. this south side neighborhood, where nearly half of the population lives in poverty, once swelled with slum-like housing projects. much of the city's public housing has been demolished in

recent years. but a few high-rises remain. including those of cabrini green on the south side. thousands have grown up only to wine up the cook county jail, and then state prison. watch your face. my gosh. the guy with hat on. remember the charts on the wall? eight pages. all out of here. got to know who everybody is. >> with his informant's help investigator domma has identified dozens of drug and firearms traffickers over the year. >> the people that he can target are the key players. get everybody in a conspiracy case. this kid can do multiple people. >> today, they've eyeballed several alleged drug house for the sheriff's noise investigate. washington stands to make a percentage off any narcotics that police seize later. it's all if an afternoon's work. >> you want me to drop you off at? >> tack a left.

right here. >> i got 20 good informants where they call me every other day but they tremendous informants. going out risking their life for me. see you. it means a lot. coming up later on "the squeeze." >> a lot of business coming in and out of that place. >> washington's intel sends police after one of their most elusive targets yet. starts with adding a friend... ♪ ...could end with adding a close friend. the lexus december to remember sales event is on. this is the pursuit of perfection. tomato, obviously. haha. there's more than that though, there's a kick to it. wahlalalalallala! smooth, but crisp. it's kind of like drinking a food that's a drink, or a drink that's a food, woooooh! [ male announcer ] taste it and describe the indescribable. could've had a v8. [ male announcer ] taste it and describe the indescribable. is bigger than we think ... sometimelike the flu.fer from

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this guy's a high ranker and i love him. he stay there? >> in and out. >> soon after investigators adrian sandoval and greg carpenter recruited niko they began building a case with his intel. they've identified an alleged drug ring on chicago's northwest side with ties to the latin lover's gang. >> that's huge. >> together, with the cook county sheriff's police, they've made undercover dope buys at dealer's house. >> out of the car. >> there they go right there. >> now they've obtained a search

warrant, so it's time to take the target down. >> you or eddie the last guy. >> who's the last guy. >> i'll be behind you. >> make sure everybody's got their methods. >> our primary breach door right here pap this is the known that we have. a great distance between that front gate and the house. the house is set right on the alley. >> partners now, make sure they're set. you guys good? you guys good over here? that look like a pit to me. these, i don't know. the plan is to distract these dogs to the front. what we want to do is get if that house before those dogs are able to get back. the point is to get everybody in here safely and execute the search warrant. >> whoever is getting in my truck, let's go.

>> as nightfalls, sandoval joins a caravan of vehicles heading to the location. 16 hbt members plan to storm the house while nine other officers from the sheriff's police and ciu provide backup. >> get ready. >> we are east in the alley. east in the alley. >> looks like dogs in the house. somebody in the doorway. >> in the house. >> what's going on? >> in the house. we're the police, okay?

>> we got the back. >> movement on the second floor. movement on the second floor. >> movement on the second floor. >> shut off the lights. >> within minutes, police breach the front and back of the house, and secure the first floor. then they set off a diversion area device and take the second floor. >> see the lights upstairs? >> we're good. >> with ten people and several dogs inside, now under control, investigators look for their target. but he's nowhere to be seen. instead, they find his brother, his teenage son, and several guest borders hiding upstairs. they place the target's brother in custody, and begin their

search for drugs and guns. >> hello? who is this? you don't know who it is? this is the police. yeah, we're in your house right now doing a search warrant. they don't want to talk to me. >> authorities recover 20 grams of cocaine sitting in plain sight. and they put the squeeze on the target's son to find out where his father is. the teenager, who is known to bran dish a gun around the neighborhood, clams up. >> you've been to county before? how old are you? you know what happens to 17 year olds not affiliated? you don't know? you don't watch tv? bad stuff. you say you're not gang banging? two tinges that happen. you get plugged or you get

plugged you understand? the understand the difference? one happens voluntarily, one happens involuntarily. understand that? that's the situation. if you like boys, you like boys. >> you're 17. you know how to fight? better learn quick. >> take you to a real lockup. you're going to go down to the county. that's a real thing. it's ain't no joke. either get in touch with daddy or you're going. >> he looks pretty scared. try to play the tough role, young and everything. we finally let him know somebody's going to take the weight, you, your uncle, somebody. somebody in the house is going. >> put the cuffs on him, put his ass in the car, go to jail, talk to him down ton. this is ridiculous. how many chances you going to give him? >> the target's son denies knowing where his father is or

even how to reach him. but when investigators are scroll through his cell phone contacts they find a number that comes up as dad. the teen average claims that the number really belongs to his mother. >> if she answers or not the dad answers or not, he's going. >> i'll make sure he gets a special place, that's where he's going. >> as the teenager stalls for time, investigator hernandez puts a call in to the mother 4 only speaks spanish there. [ speaking spanish ] >> and getsance answer that no one's expecting. sit his mom bact in a long time. [ shirley ] things are sometimes a little tight around the house. i wasn't able to go to the wedding. [ emily jo ] since derrell couldn't get home, we decided to bring home to him and then just gave him a little bit of help finding his way. ♪

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it's after 9:00 p.m., and cook county authorities are searching for the alleged lead or of a dope ring on chicago's northwest side. they've seized more than 20 grams of cocaine at his house, and they're ready to take his 17-year-old stoon to jail. >> how old are you? you know what happens to 17-year-old boys not affiliated? bad stuff. >> first they contact the mother who seems unfazed that police have raided her home. >> i asked her whose room? all of us stay in there from time to time. who is all of us me my, kids. i told her, shall i arrest all of you, including the kids?

she goes, what for? for the drugs. she goes, what drugs? >> everybody's stupid today. >> she's not coming home? >> no, taking care of kids from not her own kids. >> niece and nephew. she ain't coming. >> the thing is we can take whoever we want upstairs and charge whoever we want, nothing's going to stay. the drugs -- they're in the open. it doesn't matter. if our target was here, obviously that's one thing. without a target here, we can charge it, it's going to go to prelim and get tossed. why bother if recover the drugs, narcotics, what we can do is get an arrest warrant for the old man. >> we're going to cut him loose? >> yeah. >> just so you know, this wasn't a wasted effort on our part. we got some drugs out of the

your house. we're not saying they're yours. the search warrant was for the house. your house has been searched they are rely. it's not personal. this is business. >> i know. >> understand? when you're doing bad business it's our business to handle our business. do understand what i'm saying? >> police can issue an arrest warrant for their missing target and wait to catch him another day. >> they say the father allegedly doesn't really live there. but he's there all the time. so that didn't make sense either. and he shows up every day or every other day, drops the mom $50, $100 apiece. so the father's got to be making some decent money. seems like kids are off to fend for themselves. maybe the father thinks it's right or wrong, if he's putting them in play with dealing the drugs or maybe just trying to keep them happy giving them money here and there. he feels his job's done, i don't know. but there's a right way and a

wrong way to make your money. >> yeah. yeah. i'm at work now, boss. i got all of his information. >> following last night's raid, investigators carpenter and sandoval will circle back to their informant niko to thank him for his help. he's established trust on his first job. paving the way for more operations in the future. he's one of 20 confidential informants, or cis, working on outside for carpenter and sandoval. >> i think guys are good at it and see rewards, whether financial rewards or we've had cis picked up on a petty case, make phone calls, case goes away. you got to make a living. informants make a living this is their job and they know they get a percentage of stuff recovered. the bigger they get the more they get. >> looking and for his safety.

people are at him. looking to left, to the right. flagging me down, right? remember the house that you gave dimas? >> six weeks after investigator franco domma took his informant washington to identify dope houses, the sheriff's police zero in on one of those locations for a stakeout. they call in washington to help them set up surveillance and plan an undercover sting. >> first house on the block. this one here? >> the target house is based in a notorious gang war zone called the wild 100s, stretches from 100th street to 130th on chicago's south side and is home to rival gangs like the black

pea stones, vice lores and gds. washington claims he's bought cocaine and premium grade c cannabis at the target residence. >> 24. >> came up with the end of the house. to get the search warrant we need to buy two times. >> investigator dimas hernandez will have an undercover officer to do two buys while he and other police conduct surveillance from afar. we rode along with within one of the officers to watch a target location on a busy thursday night. >> 119th getting off right now. >> all right. standing out. >> i'll have a good eye on it. i'm not even a block away. quite a few people out on the

block, though. they're out on the porches. it's not as quiet as we thought it was going to be. >> a steady stream of customers arrives within minutes. >> >> we've got a minivan that pulled up, and we've got another cadillac pulling up behind that car. so stand by. all right. somebody in a red jacket just came out of the targets house. someone else is coming out. we've got a lot of people coming in and out. oh, you've got a -- all right. i got a car that pulled in front of me occupied with two males. they're just sitting in the car right in front of me, looking the same way we're looking. i don't joe why. they're on the cell phone right now. >> gangs often employ their own counter-surveillance to watch

for cops near the drug houses. >> i've got some foot traffic on the block. >> all right. i've got to get out of here. i have a guy walking up to us. >> the block becomes too hot for us to say, but an undercover officer makes two buys without a problem. investigators then debrief at a nearby location. >> a lot of times when you have a house that's so busy, it's obviously a group effort, a gang effort, so they will, they'll put their counter-surveillance out, security out and they'll call out northbound they see on the block. any cars they usually don't see, so that sounds like what this block is. it's a hot block. >> now that police have enough evidence for a search warrant, they get ready to launch a raid in the next 24 hours. >> the target door is the white one. the one to the right is boarded up. >> but they never seen the curveball that's coming. >> we ain't got [ muted ] up here under cover.

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he's flagging me down action right? >> so you took a friend to this guy's residence. what's 3.5? an eight ball of cocaine? six week after they identified an alleged drug house, the sheriff and police kicked undercover buys. 24 hours later, this el prepare to execute a warrant. >> our target how is with the blue porch. the target door is the white one, the one to the right is boarded up. >> it's a friday night. the weather is unseasonably warm, perfect conditions for big business. >> our informant was in there

recently and there was a weapon when he made a transaction. >> the subject is known to carry firearms, so the risk level is high. a 29-member team will storm the location. they're highly manned, but they won't have the element of surprise on their side. >> there is lookouts in this area, all over. >> they were on the street and allegedly one up on the second floor that's boarded up. he said he observed somebody in that window. >> see you on the beach, kid. >> you guys watch your backs when you approach that house. there's a lot 9 security paying attention to everything that goes on there. >> police search warrant. police search warrant. >> the team breaches the property from the back.

secondaries. >> coming out. coming out. >> police quickly secure a mostly empty house. they find only two people inside. and catch another man running outside with over $1,000 in his pockets. he has no drugs or weapons on him, though. and no outstanding warrants. the street is otherwise quiet and eerily so. as investigators search the property for evidence, a troubling reality sets in. not only is their target not home, they're unable to find the narcotics or guns they've been expecting. what seemed like a slam dunk case the night before has taken a nose dive. >> like i told you, i don't know

nothing. i ain't know no -- i've been keeping it real. i went to the store, got my drink and got my ticket. i ain't no hype. every now and then i do hit the hooter. but i'm not leaving [ muted ] for nobody. >> but the residence is -- >> but i have no knowledge of that, sir. >> the individuals removed from the house have nothing on them, either. so police let them go. >> there was a bunch in the middle of the street. is not we turned the corner, they knew right away. >> it's odd that no one is in there, notion is in there, but baggies everywhere. scales just everything. yesterday this place was like grand central station. >> one of the investigator got neismgs from about 20 minutes before here, thirp running out of the house with bags. so i'm assuming if that information is correct, anything, it could be our informant tipped them off.

it's a possibility. >> not much to show. i mean, some scales and packaging. >> nothing is clear. it could be that counter-surveillance, or lookout saw the car aadvance, or the informant washington double-crossed his handlers. >> i want to say no, i hope it wasn't. he's been very reliable for the past year naphtha we've been using him. i'll get a chance to talk to him over the weekend, see what he says. >> >> we could speculate for the next hour what happened about what went wrong. it's a game, that's all it is, is a game.